The Illusion: Soviet Soldiers in Hitler's Armies

by Jürgen Thorwald

The Soviet Soldiers in Hitler's J. The Soviet Soldiers in Hitler's Houghton Mifflin Harcourt FIRST First Edition, 2nd Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Press, 1975. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with previous owner's name on front flyleaf and spotting on page ends. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller 360049 History We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!

342 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1975

About the author

Jürgen Thorwald was a German writer, journalist and historian known for his works describing the history of forensic medicine and of World War II.

Thorwald was a native of Solingen, Rhenish Prussia, and attended the University of Cologne. He started his career in 1933 in Nazi Germany, writing for publications such as Die Braune Post ("The Brown Mail"), the SS journal Das Schwarze Korps ("The Black Corps") and the NSDAP paper National-Zeitung. During the war he worked as a propaganda writer focusing on the Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine and the general German war effort.

After the war, he used the pseudonym Jürgen Thorwald in order to be able to work under Allied occupation. In 1947, he legally adopted the new name.

Thorwald's book 'The Century of the Detective' was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1966 in Best Fact Crime category, but he lost to Truman Capote's 'In Cold Blood'. In 1984 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Thorwald died in Lugano, Switzerland in 2006. He was 90 years old.

Reviews

[A.C. Thompson · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5 for this chilling and sobering tale of soldiers from the Soviet Union who were captured by German forces in WWII. They wanted nothing more than a better Russia, free from the murderous tyranny of Josef Stalin and the Soviet system of rule. After all hope was finally exhausted that either the U.S. or British would intervene and free them from a fate of being murdered by their own government, tens of thousands of these soldiers chose suicide rather than returning to the U.S.S.R. Their leaders who made it back home alive were tried, “confessed their guilt”, and were condemned to death by the rope. All were hanged.

[Kate · Rating 2 out of 5]

Książka ta została napisana bardzo kompetentnie i do rzeczy. Traktowała ona o mniej znanym aspekcie II wojny światowej, czyli współpracy Rosjan z nazistami przeciwko bolszewizmowi i Stalinowi. Nie wciągnęła mnie ona dogłębnie, choć nic nie można zarzucić autorowi.